Lyft Will Test Self-Driving Chevy Bolts on Public Roads Within a Year

If you use the ride-hailing app Lyft, you might soon find that the pink mustache-wearing car that comes to pick you up is a self-driving electric Chevy Bolt—provided you're in the yet-unnamed city where Lyft and GM plan to begin public road testing of autonomous cars.

That's the word from The Wall Street Journal, which reports that GM and Lyft have agreed to begin testing self-driving cars on public roads within the next year. While the location of the testing program has not yet been confirmed, Lyft insiders tell WSJ that customers will be able to opt in (or out) of the self-driving test program when hailing a ride through the app.

Advertisement - Continue Reading Below

And don't worry: WSJ reports that the first batch of autonomous test cars will still have a human in the driver's seat, to take control in case anything goes awry (and, assumedly, to satisfy the legal requirements of the jurisdiction where the test will take place).